Finding a plant that can withstand that trifecta of humidity, fluctuating temperatures, and low-light levels might be ...
12 species have vanished. “That’s big time,” says botanist Kenneth Wood of the Hawaii-based nonprofit National Tropical Botanical Garden. Working alongside Hawaii’s Plant Extinction ...
Air plants bloom only once, their small pink, coral, purple or white flowers signaling their impending death. But no worries: ...
A third of tropical African plants are on the path ... standing to lose more than 40% of their richness of plants. Species at risk include trees, shrubs, herbs and woody vines.
Tropical plants were under-represented in the inventory of species. Meanwhile, primitive plants such as mosses were fewer in number compared with exotic specimens such as orchids and lilies.